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[h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC
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Eli Zaretskii |
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[h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC |
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Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:36:52 +0300 (IDT) |
On 12 Jun 2002, Andre Spiegel wrote:
> > (case-fold-search (not (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))))
>
> I hesitate to install this. Wouldn't it be a cleaner solution if Emacs
> always used the real filenames internally, and not a down-cased
> version?
I believe Emacs should treat file names as the underlying filesystem
does.
> What is the rationale for that?
Evidently, some Windows tools (the ftp client, in this case) have a
misfeature whereby they change the letter-case of the file names when
they copy the files.
> If this can't be avoided, then is it always guaranteed that filenames
> are case-insensitive under DOS/NT?
Yes, it's guaranteed.
> Couldn't you "mount" a Unix
> filesystem and have case-sensitive filenames there?
I'm not aware of such a mount command. I think it cannot exist, since it
will break many Windows programs.
> What if DOS/NT
> changes so that filenames become case-sensitive there, too?
I don't think this is a real danger. Too many things on Windows depend
on case-insensitivity.
> Or,
> alternatively, aren't there other architectures (e.g. VMS) where
> filenames are case-insensitive as well?
VMS is another case, yes.
> To sum up, the above solution looks like a hack to me and I'd rather
> look for something cleaner.
I don't think it's a hack: Windows doesn't treat the letter-case in file
names as significant. It is IMHO a bug in Emacs that it compares file
names case-sensitively on Windows.
A better solution is to fix all the programs out there which futz with
letter-case in file names, but that doesn't sound like a practical way.
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jeff Rancier, 2002/06/11
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/12
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Andre Spiegel, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Robert Marshall, 2002/06/12
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jeff Rancier, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jeff Rancier, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jason Rumney, 2002/06/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/13
- Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Stephen Leake, 2002/06/12
- [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Jeff Rancier, 2002/06/12
Re: [h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC, Nat Goodspeed, 2002/06/12